The Girl in a Coma by John Moss The
Poisoned Pencil- Poisoned Pen Press

Shooter by Caroline Pignat Tundra
Books

Another Me by Eva Wiseman Tundra
Books

Best Nonfiction Book

Life Sentence: Stories from Four
Decades of Court Reporting — or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian
Justice System by Christie Blatchford Doubleday Canada

The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of
a Modern Outlaw by Joe Friesen Signal McClelland & Stewart

A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The
Jennifer Pan Story by Jeremy Grimaldi, Dundurn Press

Black River Road: An Unthinkable
Crime, an Unlikely Suspect, and the Question of Character by Debra Komar Goose
Lane

Shadow of Doubt: The Trial of
Dennis Oland by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon Goose Lane

Unhanged Arthur for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (Sponsored by
Dundurn Press)

An Absence of Empathy by Mary
Fernando

The Golkonda Project by S.J.
Jennings

Concrete Becomes Her by Charlotte
Morganti

Celtic Knot by Ann Shortell

The Last Dragon by Mark Thomas

The Derrick Murdoch Award is a
special achievement award for contributions to the crime genre the 2017 recipient
is Christina Jennings who is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Shaftesbury
Films. She has won a number of awards, including Genies, Geminis and Canadian
Screen Awards, among several other nominations and accolades throughout her career.

Congratulations to all the nominees. The 2017 Arthur Ellis Award winners will be announced on May 25th 2017 at the award dinner that is due to take place at the Arts and
Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto, ON